Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest o... by Julia Cameron

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Workaholism is a block, not a building block. by Julia Cameron

Workaholism is a block, not a building block.

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Exercise often moves us straight from stagnation to inspiration, from problem to solution, from self-pity to self-respect.

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Selecting a challenge and meeting it creates a sense of self-empowerment that becomes the ground for further successful challenges.

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Our moods and insights are transitory. This current is a flow of grace moving us to our right livelihood, companions, destiny.

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A working artist is a playing artist. by Julia Cameron

A working artist is a playing artist.

When we write about our lives we respond to them. As we respond to them we are rendered more fluid, more centered, more agile on our own behalf. We are tendered conscious.

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It is not the act of making art that is painful. It is the desire to make something and not acting on it that causes pain....A day when I don't write is less happy. This is not discipline. It is affection, enthusiasm, adventure-any number of other words besides discipline.

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When we do what we really love, money will come, the door will open. We feel useful and work as a game that

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As a writer, I find holidays often disturbing, not liberating, in their disruption of tempo, their open-ended time.

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Adversity is a misperception as all works toward the good. by Julia Cameron

Adversity is a misperception as all works toward the good.

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I am what I am again: a writer. I have metabolized the injury int... by Julia Cameron

I am what I am again: a writer. I have metabolized the injury into art.

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And [now] I think I’ll probably write a lot about birds. My new house has a deck that wraps around my writing room; my writing room has many windows, and outside the windows I’ve hung bird feeders … for enticing different species. So I imagine I will be writing about that.

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It takes constant vigilance not to slip into negativity or simple apathy. It takes courage to believe over any given period of time that we are getting better and not sliding into decline.

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To write is to right things. A path will emerge. by Julia Cameron

To write is to right things. A path will emerge.

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Accept the fact that you're an artist and stop second-guessing yo... by Julia Cameron

Accept the fact that you're an artist and stop second-guessing yourself. Just do it.

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You are either losing your mind -- or gaining your soul. by Julia Cameron

You are either losing your mind -- or gaining your soul.

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It is all too easy as an artist to allow the shape of our career to be dictated to us by others. We can so easily wait to be chosen. Such passivity invites despair. To remain healthy and vital, artists must stay proactive in their own behalf.

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If you want to write a novel, it's the Divine mind wanting to exp... by Julia Cameron

If you want to write a novel, it's the Divine mind wanting to express.

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Our modern ideas of 'functioning' through things are really quite inhuman. We have this idea that no matter what is going on we still have to color between the lines, act normal.

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Making art is a rite of initiation. People change their souls. by Julia Cameron

Making art is a rite of initiation. People change their souls.

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